(The following concerning this little used drug was reported by Dr. Bonino,
an Italian physician,
translated by Dr. Mossa
and published in the Allgemeine
Hom. Zeitung, July, 1898.

The use of the drug by Dr. Bonino
was truly homeopathic for the short proving of it.

Allen' Encyclopedia

reports trembling of the limbs and hand so great that "he could
not hold a glass of water")

A carpenter, aged twenty-nine years, had been suffering ever since
his eighteenth year of trembling in both hands, especially in the
morning ; of late also his legs began to tremble.

It is remarkable that both his father and his brother were subject to
the same ailment, while no definite cause could be indicated.

He was first given

Mercurius
vivus, then
Agaricus,
which brought a
partial but only transitory improvement.

Finally I prescribed

Lolium
tem.,which
in a short time effected a cure.

(On this Dr. Mossa
comments as follows :)

The pathogenetic effects of this remedy which has not yet been proved
at all are only known to some degree from its effects when it has been
mixed with grain and baked into bread.

It has caused chest troubles,

vertigo(thence the name
darnel-grass, in German
Taumellolch),
trembling,
paralysis with
anguish and distress, vomiting, failing of the memory, blindness,
headache, epileptic attacks, deep sleep and insanity.

The good success obtained by its use in the case given above shows
what curative effects may be expected from it in severe affections of
the brain or spinal marrow.

An

Italian
physician, Fantoni,
has tried it in cephalalgia, meningitis rheumatica, and in ischias.